The Limited Gaunlet

Seeing as though the Infinity Gauntlet thats comic accurate would be impossible to pull off on screen, lets see if theres anyway it can work.

Editorial Opinion
By thoarnejones - Aug 22, 2012 10:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Fan Fic
Source: comicbookmovie.com

I think I can speak for many people when I say I REALLY WANNA SEE THANOS WIELD THE INFINITY GAUNTLET. However if stuck to the source material The Avengers would be dead in less than a second. And even Thanos trying to make it possible for them to win would be counter productive. So I as well as many on this sight have said they would need to lower the power of the gauntlet for it to be possible for the Avengers to win.
So if the power gems aren't infinant in power a new name in my head would be appropriate. Maybe "Odin's Power Gauntlet" would work. So what exactly can these gems do? Well lets find out...

SOUL GEM: Gives user ability to manipulate, control, steal, and alter souls of living and dead. And is a gateway to a pocket universe. It has a sentient hunger for souls.
So how could this be used in a movie? Well maybe the Soul Gem would just be able to resurrect the dead. Plain and simple. Sound good? Lets go on.

TIME GEM: Gives user the ability complete control over the past, present, and future. Allows for time travel and can age and de-age beings. Grants full omniscience.
So how could this be used in a movie? Well I'm thinking the ability to freeze time and maybe de-age beings too.

SPACE GEM: Gives user the ability to exsist anywhere and move any object anywhere through reality and rearrange space. Grants full omnipresence.
So how could this work in a movie? Well maybe like the Tesseract it can open portals into space or wherever the desired place is. Or instantaneous teleportation.

MIND GEM: Gives user the ablility to greatly inhance his/her mental and psionic power[if not already having that power]. Gives access to the thought and dreams of other beings.
Now we've seen this before we all believe. The mind gem is blue. Which is the color of the orb in Loki's spear/septor whatever. If knocked on the head hard enough the mind control will wear off.

REALITY GEM: Allows user the ability to fulfill wishes, even if contradictory to scientific laws.
I would guess minor control over reality. Can make things appear.

POWER GEM: Gives user the ability power over all energy that has or ever will exsist. Can booast the power of the other infinity gems. Can duplicate any superhuman ability and become invincible.
How could this work in a movie. I would suspect ability to manipulate energy. And somewhat increase abilities already maintained.

Well hopefully we can see something like this in a future Avengers movie. What do you guys think? Did I overshoot here? Are there other ways to make it possible for whoever has the gauntlet to be threat but not unbeatable?

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CoolantTech
CoolantTech - 8/23/2012, 12:43 AM
Nice breakdown, now i know what each one does
marvel72
marvel72 - 8/23/2012, 3:54 AM
for the infinity gauntlet to work you could go down this route.

-thanos quest (the first villain movie that shows thanos gaining the infinity gems,odin could seperate the gems from the gauntlet & scatter them across the universe giving one each to an indivisual protector,so it would be much harder to obtain than it being all in one place i.e odin's artifact chamber on asgard.)

the amount of heroes involved would be another problem,the way round this is this is use characters already introduced & add new ones to the cinematic universe.

-the avengers
-war machine
-ant-man
-winter soldier
-guardians of the galaxy

& then you could build up to another team

-dr.strange
-the incredible hulk
-namor
-the defenders

this could all lead into an infinity gauntlet trilogy,i believe there is too many characters involved for one movie,look how watered down the dark phoenix storyline was in x-men 3.

so do a infinity gaunlet trilogy in a lord of the rings style epic adventure featuring the avengers,guardians of the galaxy & the defenders trying to save the universe from thanos & the infinity gauntlet.

who know's marvel may just water it down so it'll be the avengers & guardians of the galaxy vs thanos,either way we the fans win.
comiccow6
comiccow6 - 8/23/2012, 4:37 AM
I say go as far as you're planning Marvel. I think they only wanted Galactus to show him off when Thanos gets the Gauntlet, along with the six other cosmic powerhouses. Silver Surfer would have been for the Defenders. But...they have Daredevil now, so we could be seeing Marvel Knights. Maybe, in the near future, Marvel will get back the FF, and then we can have the Defenders. At the very end-no, not Avengers 3-of the MCU, have Thanos attack, when the heroes are older, or even dead. If the actors are no longer with us at that time, do not recast them! Their performances should be left as they are, if they die. No one automatically died in the Infinity Gauntlet event. So, have the Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, and Marvel Knights, plus SHIELD, (maybe X-Men and the Masters of Evil, if we're lucky) come together, and kick the crap out of Thanos. Remember this?



I want that on screen.
Orphix
Orphix - 8/23/2012, 7:02 AM
It will be really interesting to see what they do with Thanos - mainly cos I have literally no idea what they can do with him!!

Thanos must mean the introduction of the Infinity Gauntlet proper - but how do they do it justice so that it isn't just another mcguffin like the cosmic cube.

I like the idea Marvel72 had in which the gems from the gauntlet are scattered and guarded/contested by a variety of people. Maybe the Cosmic Cube is a gem in another form and the ball is already rolling on that one?!?
Luminus
Luminus - 8/23/2012, 4:41 PM
@thoarnejones: So, dead in 1 second, then. The Infinity Gauntlet is too powerful. Period. You would have to enlist the help of the Living Tribunal to stop Thanos.
thoarnejones
thoarnejones - 8/23/2012, 7:31 PM
Well Luminus the point of the article is to see how Marvel Studios could use the infinity gauntlet . But as we all know like you said its to powerful. So I was just offering suggestions as to how it could be used as a weapon but just doesn't make the wielder unbeatable.
MisterMagurlypse
MisterMagurlypse - 8/24/2012, 12:09 PM
I hate to say this, but I don't think they'll even use the gauntlet. I know we already saw it awhile ago, but that might just be hype. They've built the tesseract up so much it might be their version of it. Loki was given a weapon...mind gem maybe...to retrieve the cube for Thanos. So Thanos wants the cube and once he gets his hands on it it will be used "gauntlet like" to destroy. If we do see the gauntlet it won't be the one we all know and love. Unless the GOTG movie focuses on explaining what and how the gauntlet is and does, I don't see it even being used. I pray I'm wrong.
Luminus
Luminus - 8/27/2012, 2:43 PM
This is days late, but... thoarnejones, you missed my point. You said the heroes would be dead in less than a second, if Thanos had the true Infinity Gauntlet. But then you gave examples of a supposedly de-powered Gauntlet, which is why I said, "Dead in 1 second, then." Here is why:

SOUL GEM: Should Thanos have an army, he can now make them unkillable. Game over.

TIME GEM: Thanos freezes time and kills the Avengers. Thanos turns the Avengers into children and then kills them. Game over.

SPACE GEM: Thanos teleports out of the solar system, then opens a portal over Earth to a black hole. Game over.

MIND GEM: Thanos uses mind gem to control the Hulk. Hulk gets hit on the head really hard and gets better. Hulk attacks Thanos. Thanos uses ANY other gem above in response. Game over.

REALITY GEM: I'm not sure what you mean by "manipulate energy." Matter is energy in another form, so taking that statement literally, Thanos can basically do what Proteus does (x-men villain). Therefore, game over.

No Infinity Gauntlet. Sorry.
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